Wealth, poverty and poilitics

By:

Tullock, Gordon

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Basil Blackell; 1988Description: 209 pISBN:

631151133

Subject(s):

Social choice

DDC classification:

320.019 TUL

Summary: Observing the gap between charitable thought and action, the author examines the important policy implications which this discrepancy has in a democratic society. He argues that if the amount of money transferred to the poor actually reflects voter opinion, then improvements must be made within the limits of the funds made available in a democracy. Far from being negative about aiding the poor, this book sets out the realistic boundaries in which aid must operate. Furthermore, Tullock examines a fact not often discussed in other analyses of poverty: that it is in the nature of the voting process that many government income transfers go not to the poor, but to the well-organized.

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Observing the gap between charitable thought and action, the author examines the important policy implications which this discrepancy has in a democratic society. He argues that if the amount of money transferred to the poor actually reflects voter opinion, then improvements must be made within the limits of the funds made available in a democracy.

Far from being negative about aiding the poor, this book sets out the realistic boundaries in which aid must operate. Furthermore, Tullock examines a fact not often discussed in other analyses of poverty: that it is in the nature of the voting process that many government income transfers go not to the poor, but to the well-organized.

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